Nvidia’s upcoming Nforce 790i motherboard chipset, made up of Nvidia’s C73 northbridge and MCP55 southbridge, is expected during Q2 2008. The Nforce 790i (i stands for Intel) features 3-way SLI, Hybrid SLI, DDR3 memory support, and Intel CPUs with an FSB up to 1600MHz. Their will be two versions of the chipset, Nforce 790i SLI and Nforce 790i Ultra SLI, … Read the full entry »

AMD today launched three new 7 series IGP motherboard chipsets in China, namely the 740G, 780V and 780G. They plan to launch them worldwide in Q1 ’08 but hasn’t yet announced an official date but sources at motherboard makers are saying to expect them March 5th. The AMD 740G (RS740) is the new entry level chipset and contains ATI Radeon 2100 … Read the full entry »

Up to this point the only mATX motherboard with dual video card slots was a socket 939 SLI motherboard from EVGA that has been discontinued for a while now but that may be changing. DFI has yet to make an official announcement but it’s being reported that they plan to make micro ATX SLI and Crossfire motherboards. They state that DFI is planning to … Read the full entry »

Gigabyte has announced their Dynamic Energy Saver motherboard line, which they tout as having “power savings of up to 70% and up to 20% improved power efficiency.” They’ve announced a list of motherboards that support the feature using Intel P35, X38 and X48 chipsets. Gigabyte didn’t give much technical info about how it actually works in the … Read the full entry »

It’s being reported that Nvidia has recently informed it’s hardware partners of a new marketing program called Additive Brand. The Additive Brand allows OEMs to bundle an Nvidia chipset motheboard capable of Hybrid SLI with a video card running an Nvidia GPU that supports GeForce Boost and market the system as having the video card of the combined … Read the full entry »

It’s being reported by DigiTimes (who got the info from Chinese newspaper Apply Daily) that Via Technologies has merged their CPU and chipset devisions. Via has been struggling the last few years and hasn’t had a popular motherboard chipset since the K8T800, an Athlon 64 AGP chipset, and has been fighting with Intel off and on over patent issues since the … Read the full entry »